..a little acrylic, some gouache, which i usually don't use much of for some reason. You'd think i'd use gouache more... being so partial to watercolors as i am.

kinda quiet last week..

i mean, i'm working like a maniac as usual. i just mean not much editor or freelancer contact, as lots of people flying back from NY comic con on Monday and probably fried on Tues. which is fine, can be left to myself.

not sure where this is going.. ( i know, what's up with the spots? no idea. )

this one has a sorta melancholily to it, but maybe that's just me.

..not sure this is coming out how i envisioned, but that's a losing battle. Trying to control what happens on a blank page.

i mean, how can now can we take credit it for what is often 90 percent accidental? Including spots?

...so that's about it for this one.. leave well enough alone.

Yes, i admit, i AM always trying to aim for *something* when i paint something,

but it's too.... harsh to hate what comes out... just because it's not what i envisioned. not anymore.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

this green tree was done on the back of a comic book board with waxed surface.

almost threw it out... but seemed a waste.

i was able to scratch some leaves into the wax with an exacto knife.

also across the tree trunk too.

you can see i 'slimmed' the trunk down too..

decided not to hide the blend, since i wanted a soft edge to the trunk..

this one's a little different..

i cut out another tall skinny strip of bristol..

this pics a little burry, but i left it in because the focus is the center. I wanted to blur the branches so i used a pen with non-waterproof ink...

i think i got lost in some detail along the way though.

I was trying to avoid too much rendering..

but the temptation to blue the top and olivia the bottom was too great.

as we all know, with watercolor, you just close take a breath, tilt paper, and see what happy ( or unhappy) accidents happen...

anyone else notice how a different proportion causes you to think, and draw different specially? Not just drawing a vertical tree...

... but being hemmed in with a certain proportion?

almost like how a photographer crops and composes an image, isn't it?

well at least this Tall Tree... feels slightly different than the Green Tree, (which is the usual cliche Tree usually fall into painting.) This tree fells like a lush soggy Autumn to me, which i can feel and smell in the air right now.

Plus if any of you got sick of looking a side-ways Judge Dredd, now at least...you have something *else* to stare at when you check this page, eh?

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Just like everyone else's blog, stuff about what's on my drawing table right now, old art I'll dig up or new stuff I'm toiling away on. All the usual self-absorbed artist crap. Sorry I've been such a hermit the last few years. Check back for updates every week or so.